5.03.2008
"His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired."
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4.26.2008
This new exhibit about Darwin's garden seems to be implying that Darwin himself had something like a Mendelian understanding of heredity and variation. This implies that the research that led to the Origin of Species anticipates the Modern Synthesis. I'm not sure I believe that (in fact, I am pretty sure that I don't), but it is a very interesting conjecture. It also forces one to ask the question why Darwin didn't work out the Mendelian population "genetics" if he had the plant data in his back yard.
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2.15.2008
Mr. Baltimore presented five rules for doing that:
—demand excellence.
—concentrate resources.
—create small environments.
—maintain unity of teaching and research.
—make academic freedom crucial.
—demand excellence.
—concentrate resources.
—create small environments.
—maintain unity of teaching and research.
—make academic freedom crucial.
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1.04.2008
Hearing aids are expensive. Just thought you'd like to know.
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12.18.2007
Human unsettlement. That's an ugly word that I made up. It feels proper for a painful relationship to a displaced world. The German word for uncanny is 'Unheimlich': an unhome-ness. Unsettlement is the painful dislocation of the human psyche in relationship to the expectation of routine and relationships that we anchor in a phantasmatic sense of place. I often don't believe people who say that have no sense of love of place. To say that is actually a disavowal of sorts of routine and people. Unsettlement is a process of grinding anxiety, disorienting alienation, punctuated with the shock of estrangement. Unsettlement is painful and sad, and I feel for the lost of New Orleans.
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12.17.2007
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12.03.2007
"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time." --Charles M. Schulz
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